[4] Davies was at first associated with the "high church" Anglicans, whose thinking was closer to Roman Catholic than Protestant traditions.
[3] On 28 February 1855 Davies and five other Anglican clergy met at the House of Charity, Rose Street, Soho, London, and founded the Anglo-Catholic Society of the Holy Cross.
[6] In his later years Davies identified himself as a "broad churchman" and thought the church should tolerate a wide range of beliefs and practices.
[10] He did not play an active role in spiritualism until August 1874, when he attended a spiritualist conference in Gower Street, London.
In 1870 he represented The Daily Telegraph in France on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War and was arrested as a suspected spy while searching Metz for his colleague, George Augustus Sala.
[7] On his resettling in London, he was employed after 1893 in superintending a series of translations, undertaken at the instance of Cecil Rhodes, of the original authorities used by Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Davies retired from active work in 1901, and died at his home, 50 Connaught Road, Harlesden, London, on 6 September 1910.